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N153A

Bell 47G-3B-1

Valid Montana

N153A is a Bell 47G-3B-1, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1966. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Farwest Aviation LLC, an LLC in Billings, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 15, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 14, 2021.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
47G-3B-1
Serial number
3550
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TVO-435-B1A · 270 hp
Seats
3
Year built
1966
Cruising speed
78 mph
Transponder code
A0D554 (octal 50152524)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 15, 2023
Expires
May 31, 2030
Last FAA action
March 18, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · December 14, 2021
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00172082

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Farwest Aviation LLC
Type
LLC
Address
6309 Jellison Rd
Billings, MT 59101-9306

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 2

2013-04-30Aspegren Robert BANDIT PRO · Registration expired, pending cancellation
1967-11-20Douglas DC3C · exported to Venezuela · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data